JMeter sample response encoding

Question

I'm having problems with JMeter's handling of unicode characters. When a sample response contains such characters, they are returned corrupted. For example, I'm using the dummy sampler with this response data:

Hauptschule Sankt Pýlten, Pottenbrunn

And JMeter returns:

Hauptschule Sankt P�lten, Pottenbrunn

I've set these properties in saveservice.properties and jmeter.properties respectively:

_file_encoding=UTF-8
sampleresult.default.encoding=UTF-8

but it makes no difference.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks

Solution 1

Right property to set / change in jmeter.properties is

 sampleresult.default.encoding=UTF-8

(if omitted default is ISO-8859-1)

Solution 2

Add a BSF post processing element to the sampler with the following script:

prev.setDataEncoding("UTF-8")

That's what worked for me.

Comments

[Boris]

Just as a note: The BSF post processing is deprecated for some time and will be removed in 3.3 AFAIK. But of course this also works fine with a JSR223 PostProcessor when selecting either one of the beanshell or javascript languages.

[David Le Borgne]

Successfully used this syntax in a JSR223 PostProcessor using JMeter 5.4.1